Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de Société and Vers D'occasion in the English Language by Deceased Authors |
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... fate , ere long , will thee betide , When thou hast handled been awhile , Like sere flowers to be thrown aside ; And I will sigh , while some will smile , To see thy love for more than one Hath brought thee to be loved by none . Sir ...
... fate , ere long , will thee betide , When thou hast handled been awhile , Like sere flowers to be thrown aside ; And I will sigh , while some will smile , To see thy love for more than one Hath brought thee to be loved by none . Sir ...
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... fate , And are alive i ' the skies , If thus our lips and eyes Can speak like spirits unconfined In heaven , their earthly bodies left behind . Richard Lovelace LVI . WERT thou yet fairer in thy feature , Which lies not in the power of ...
... fate , And are alive i ' the skies , If thus our lips and eyes Can speak like spirits unconfined In heaven , their earthly bodies left behind . Richard Lovelace LVI . WERT thou yet fairer in thy feature , Which lies not in the power of ...
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... fate is too aspiring , Whose heart , broke with a load of love , Dies , wishing and admiring . But if this murder you'd forego , Your slave from death removing ! Let me your art of charming know , Or learn you mine of loving . But ...
... fate is too aspiring , Whose heart , broke with a load of love , Dies , wishing and admiring . But if this murder you'd forego , Your slave from death removing ! Let me your art of charming know , Or learn you mine of loving . But ...
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... fate . If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty ; if it prove But as long - lived as present love . Edmund Waller . LXXIII . THE STORY OF PHOEBUS AND DAPHNE APPLIED . THYRSIS , a youth of the inspired train , Fair Sacharissa loved ...
... fate . If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty ; if it prove But as long - lived as present love . Edmund Waller . LXXIII . THE STORY OF PHOEBUS AND DAPHNE APPLIED . THYRSIS , a youth of the inspired train , Fair Sacharissa loved ...
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... fate and mine are one , Which , on the shaft that made him die , Espied a feather of his own , Wherewith he wont to soar so high . Had Echo , with so sweet a grace , Narcissus ' loud complaints return'd , Not for reflection of his face ...
... fate and mine are one , Which , on the shaft that made him die , Espied a feather of his own , Wherewith he wont to soar so high . Had Echo , with so sweet a grace , Narcissus ' loud complaints return'd , Not for reflection of his face ...
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Alexander Pope Araminta beauty bliss blush bright Burnham-beeches charms cheek Chloe Cupid dance dear delight Derry doth e'er Earl eyes fair fate fear flowers gaze give gone grace hand happy haste hath hear heart Heaven heigh-ho Henry Luttrell hour John Wolcot Jonathan Swift kind king kiss kiss'd Lady Landor lass laugh lips live look Lord Love's lover maid Matthew Prior mind morning muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once pain play pleasant pleasure poet poor Praed pray Robert Herrick rose round shepherd sigh sing Sir John Suckling sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sure swain sweet taste tears tell there's thine thing Thomas Carew Thomas Hood Thomas Moore thou thought thro to-morrow true Twas Unknown vers de société verse vex'd Walter wife William William Cowper wish young youth